unbreak my heart, Latin gay club version…. now that’s high art

My forthcoming book A COUNTRY OF THEIR OWN: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE PROMISE OF ANTEBELLUM LATIN AMERICA has a home! I am thrilled to be publishing with BASIC BOOKS and the supremely brilliant @rubenwrites.bsky.social and can’t wait to share with the world soon! Vamos!!!!!

there is a competition taking place in NYC and it’s called Who Can Wear The Smallest Glasses

mo'nique winning the oscar for best supporting actress is pop culture history

Pedro Pascal: Ooooh Wanna Kiss Kiss Kiss! Mwah Mwah! Smoochie Smoochie!

& again I ask the eternal question: why does the raising canes in Times Square have a DJ

Ditmas Lit is on Wed. 7/23 at The Urbane Arts Club! We’re excited to welcome Belle Ling, Heather McCalden, @rubenwrites.bsky.social & Anthony Thomas Lombardi! RSVP here: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

#ArchiveofUnknownUniverses by @RubenWrites is featured in yesterday's #newbooks wrap on youtube! watch here: youtu.be/AtQmgO83bog buy the books here: bookshop.org/lists/n...#ArchiveofUnknownUniverses#newbooksll links in bio!

I reviewed @rubenwrites.bsky.social's magnificent debut novel, "Archive of Unknown Universes," where he sends his characters on an adventure through a quasi-multiverse to explore alternate outcomes of El Salvador’s 1972-92 civil war.

Your first look at this week's 20% off new release book picks, four fiction, four nonfiction. You don't have to support Jeff Bezos to get discounts on hot new books. Come to us: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b... Titles/authors in alt-text. Authors and publishers on Bluesky in comment 🧵 #Booksky

Look what I found while searching for books to add to my queer books of 2025 list. This sounds amazing. It came out yesterday. 🌈📚 💙📚 www.harpercollins.com/products/arc...

Pre-order just arrived - can’t wait to dive in to ARCHIVE OF UNKNOWN UNIVERSES by @rubenwrites.bsky.social

if we're playing up anecdotes (like these moral-panicky essays are) -- A LOT of books I see brought to acquisition are written by white men, followed very closely by white women. i'm working in nonfiction, but i think white men are ok :)

Mike Bloomberg can kick rocks

You can read Ruben's stories from @bombmag.bsky.social's Summer 2024 issue here: bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

Congratulations to @rubenwrites.bsky.social‬, whose brilliant "Alternate Histories of El Salvador or Perhaps the World" will be featured in the next Best Small Fictions from @altcurrent.bsky.social! 👏👏👏

There is something so beautiful about a strawberry

I love when all the art in a gallery is bad… it is so inspiring to me ❤️

me & my girls are soooo locked in to… the conclave

in my LeAnn Rimes era

the family values party! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...

need 2 b severed sooo bad

ICYMI: I wrote about the wrongful deportation of Abrego Garcia slate.com/news-and-pol...

lots of talk of El Salvador in the news but not enough context because... there is so little published about the country that isn't about gangs! come onnn

I owe my life to the halal cart outside my office

Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man

deep cut lady gaga at the vegas airport...this is a sign

please don’t make me learn who The Dare is

I wrote this review of an excellent novel for the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/b...

should i buy stocks rn?

not to be rude but I hope Katy Perry stays in outer space

when an academic is also hot… that should be illegal

FIRST FICTION There is a Rio Grande in Heaven by @rubenwrites.bsky.social @marinerbooks.bsky.social Your Presence is Mandatory by @sashavasilyuk.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social Beautiful Days by Zach Williams @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

For Slate, I wrote about the deportations to El Salvador and how Bukele is selling out the country slate.com/news-and-pol...

🚨 In the midst of a court fight over the Trump Admin’s flouting of a federal judge’s order to halt deportations to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, the government deports MORE people there, claiming defiantly & w/o evidence that the procedure was different. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

Ronna Rísquez, a Venezuelan journalist who’s written *the* book on Tren de Aragua, told me, “The truth is that a tattoo identifying Tren de Aragua does not exist…Tren de Aragua does not use any tattoos as a form of gang identification; no Venezuelan gang does.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

going 2 LA — may try out cosmetic surgery. do u think they’ll remove all my bones?

this is totalitarianism, by definition this is the kind of stuff El Salvador’s government was doing to students in the 1970s and 80s free speech… have u heard of it? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

For Slate, I wrote about the deportations to El Salvador and how Bukele is selling out the country slate.com/news-and-pol...

I'm gonna say no, S&S can't become A24 partly because A24 didn't publish Mike Pence's memoir. www.thecut.com/article/simo...

When my profile of Bukele published in 2022, he had jailed 50,000 people under an emergency decree that suspended the constitution & needed to be renewed by his party in Congress each month. The state of emergency is still in effect. Now 80,000 people are in prison. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

AI? more like AI’ll kill you if you ask me to use ChatGPT

The Best Debut Books of 2024 include titles from @puloma.bsky.social, @rubenwrites.bsky.social, @christinajcooke.bsky.social, @borywrites.bsky.social, @vanjchan.bsky.social, @lenavalencia.bsky.social, @anandalima.bsky.social, and more! debutiful.net/2024/11/18/t...

HAIM back in their flop era :(

bro I would love if Americans could talk about El Salvador for non-fascist reasons lol

wow, truly wild how the only thing i can do to feel (slightly) calmer in the face of authoritarianism is to write my little sentences

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-s...

sorry, this is making me feel absolutely BONKERS www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.